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Comment by MakaPL

New generation of BSmade epic shields. This one is Bind on Equip and have only few, easy to gather materials. BS will gonna be able to craft Elementium Stormshield which is a healing shield (notice that it is the first healing BSmade shield). Cataclysm equivalent of Titansteel Wall

Comment by Fleshman

How much is this worth in gold to sell? I was thinking 20-30k reason being rest of the epics are being shot on my server for 30k

Comment by kybotica

On Shattered Hand-US, these are frequently on the auction house for around 12,000 gold. The cost of mats (if you have friends to transmute the necessary truegold instead of paying 2,000 gold each) comes to somewhere around 3,000 gold. This means that the ~9,000 gold makes up crafter-set pricing on chaos orbs. Until the orbs are made BoE or purchaseable from vendors, expect this, and many other crafted items, to remain rather expensive.

Comment by Sharktooth

I would imagine that eventually the orbs will be made BoE specifically because Blizzard will want everyone to be able to advance and will hand these items to the...below average....players. Making them BoP was stupid in the first place, however, it's not like Blizzard hasn't done stupid stuff already this expansion; case in point: Tol Barad.

Comment by Slohth

Wowhead reports this as being "green" at 520, the same level you first learn it. It is in fact orange at 520 when you first learn it, and grants 5 skillups to bring you to the present cap of 525 in one shot.

Comment by Phantomleadx

Grand total mats for this item and pattern together. This is also including the mats for the truegold needed.

Comment by Lyynk424

This costs 2 Hardened Elementium Bar to buy from the vendor.

Comment by alsk911

i think that this shield should changed slightly to have a tank stat...other than hit or mastery.........generally to be useful to warrior or pally 1 of the 2 stats that can be reforged has be done just to have it slighty more useful

Comment by zero0911

Its a shield worth buying! 4k is not that much either so affordable and if you want you can farm the mats if you are able.However will take a few days, but it would be cheaper.

And if you don't want to farm it...buy the mats! Trust me...the mats are way cheaper. Truegold is about 600g. 3 times 600 = 1800g, plus the harden elementium bars are less than 100g. So the mats would be around 2k about, give or take the true price. Now depending on how much chaos orbs cost...You could save a few a pretty big stack of gold, but like i said. Depends on how much one chaos orb it. My realm I believe it is around 300g.

So I would spend 2.3k on mats while the AH price is around 3.4k right now. Or if you are like me...I have an alchemist and blacksmith. Great combo group to have.

Comment by Biggus1

Blue socket added in patch 4.1

Comment by radu1987

So far this seems like the easiest to get for a tank. Before raiding that is. Atm truegold sells for like 400 gold a piece and the shield for arownd 2 -3 K on my server (Kazzak - Eu).

Comment by Suuon

Now that they have made Chaos Orbs rolled on by those with the professional skill and type to make use of them, it easier to pick one of these up. The beauty of this shield really is the socket ability, which few shields have.

Once you reforge the "to hit" stat into dodge or parry, as you'll be unable to reforge into Mastery due to the shield already having that stat.

Socket the shield with a +mastery gem and likewise suitable enchant, you really have a wonderful raid entry shield.

Apart from higher level raid content one would be hard pressed to find a better shield.

A tip to tanks, Blacksmithing and Enchanting are the best profession combo, why? Because you get the professional perk to enchant both rings as an enchanter. As a Blacksmith you get to add a socket to your gloves and bracers.

Once I hit 85 and picked up about 5k worth of low level 85 epic gear, these professional perks enable me to have the base stats to start running heroics immediately. I had a Chaos Orb at the end of running my second heroic instance.